DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 5 February 1903, Page 20

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND.

CFrom our own correspondent.) January 29. The Very Rev. Father Fitzgerald, 0.F.M., returned on Tuesday afternoon from Hamilton, where he conducted the retreat of the Sisters of the Mission. Last evening 1 at St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby, he opened a retreat for 1 idies of the diocese. It is Father Fii Zjjerald's intention to stay for some time in this diocese. Rev. Father Croke returned at the end of last week from the Waika'o, where he has spent some months. Father Croke is staying at the Mater Misericoriise Hospital. Rev. Father Tormey, of St. Benedict's, is also .an inmate of the hospital, suffering from a slight attack of typhoid fever, but is, ha >pily, recovering, and may soon be enabled to leave the institution. There were gathered at St. Mary's Convent during tha holidays eighty Sisters of Mercy from many paits of the diocese. The Rev. Father Hickson, S.M., of Reefton, who had been attending the retreat of the priests of the Archdiocese of Wellington, arrived here to-day from the South on a short vieit to his relatives. The Marist Brothers' returnel last week with one addition to their number. Signs are evident of a stirring battle at the municipal elections over the question of running the electric cars in the city on Sundaja